I met up with Miles Hearn and his nature walk group this morning at the foot of Beechwood Drive. This is a section of the Don Valley which was once very polluted by industry along the river. The industry is long gone and the river… Read More
Jazzman Pharoah Sanders passed yesterday. He was 81. RIP He played with Sun Ra (who dubbed him Pharoah rather than the Farrel he was born with), and then with Coltrane, and later led his own bands. What a wonderful musician!
I’m not even sure now, what year it was we went to San Antonio. Maybe it was 2015? The occasion was the International Accordion Festival. Our flight got canceled so we got into town a bit late, and when we finally found the festival, the… Read More
The new episode of The Agency Podcast is now available. Listen right here or find it at all the good podcast places. This week:Candy goes to GeorgiaCrazy chess scandalMaking the CutThirteen LivesLizzo’s Watch Out For the Big GrrrlsDelhi Crime Season 2….and more Thanks for listening!
This morning’s nature walk with naturalist Miles Hearn took us to The Guild Inn Estate in Scarborough, near the Bluffs. I haven’t been there in many years. I recall back in my university days in the early 80s there was a huge sculpture exhibition on… Read More
I came across this fab film while surfing around the YouTube. It’s a documentary about the friendship and musical partnership between blues great Champion Jack Dupree and a guitarist from Denmark named Kenn Lending. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I’m… Read More
I’ve been watching some of Ben Zanders music interpretation master classes on the YouTube. They are all fabulous, and this one in particular I love. I know little about classical music but this cello sonata seems to me to be out of this world fantastic.… Read More
What a story! Did Niemann cheat? Why isn’t Carlsen talking? Where is the evidence?
As I’m getting a little better at playing fiddle, I’ve been feeling that it was time to upgrade my bow. I decided to sell one of my banjos to fund a bow purchase. It was time to part ways with my Bart Reiter Standard banjo,… Read More
Mac Beattie and the Melodiers. Great to see some film of these guys playing – on Don Messer’s show.
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